12/27/2024
The hot coffee case revisited: Has proximate cause changed in the 25 years since Liebeck v. Mcdonald’s restaurants?
https://ow.ly/FEN950UbZ8z
Two cases decided 25 years apart, but there were some facts in common: a hot drink, a consumer alleging that she was burned by the drink, and a lawsuit. These are the facts of the 1994 case Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants that resulted in an award of millions to the consumer, but also the facts ...